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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Carmina de Gilgamo) appears to have been translated into many languages but I didn't find a Latin translation, does it exist?
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The English sentence 'I heard you play the flute' can have three distinct meanings:
At some point in the past, you played the flute while I was within earshot.
Someone told me that you are able to ...
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If you want to say "feel everything" in an advise-wise sense, is "sentire omnia" the correct way to say it? Or maybe it will be better to say "Sentias onmia"?
Thank you!
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My enquiry arrises from a passage in “Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata”, in the tenth chapter which is entitled “BESTIAE ET HOMINES”.
"Mercurius imperia deōrum ad hominēs portat."
I see a ...
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On one of her many visits to Pompeii, TV-presenter, Dame Mary Beard met an Italian chef who was making fish-sauce, garum, according to the original Roman recipe. Upon tasting this culinary delight ...
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I would like to know how could I say something like "Make yourself at home, but remember you aren't" in Latin. It is a quirky thing a Brazilian friend says a lot (I've translated it to ...
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Dickinson College's digitization of the grammar text by Goodell seems to suggest that -τρον and -θρον are synonyms. We also have πτολίεθρον, where it looks to me like the suffix is -εθρον (unless this ...
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In his New Latin Grammar, Bennett states (5.B.1.c):
A syllable is long if it contains a short vowel followed by x, z, or any two consonants"
As an example to this rule he gives the word restō, ...
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I am in the beginning stages of thinking about learning both Ancient Greek and Latin. During my initial research, I have encountered some people saying that learning Latin first is what is commonly ...
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I've been a fan of Mike Carey's Lucifer comic series, for its believable portrait of a fallen angel. The series spun off from Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, which established this incarnation of Lucifer ...
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What I currently have for this is probably a literal translation:
In amor cum haec lingua cado
Thank you 🙏
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How does the famous saying:
Veni, vidi, vici.
have to be changed so that it describes a female person, such as in English:
She came, she saw, she conquered.
Reversing Google Translate gives ...
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An example: carpere could mean many different things or related things:
to seize, to pick, to pluck, to gather, to browse, to tear off
to graze, to crop
(wool) to tease, to pull out, to card
to ...
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Our site has its first election now and the voting period starts in 12 hours.
Therefore it is a good moment to figure out some of the election vocabulary in Latin.
What would be a good Latin word for ...
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"scientia hominum" could mean both anthropology (the study of human beings) and "human knowledge" (the corpus of all knowledge acquired by human kind).
How do you distinguish ...
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In latin words such as digitus, I found it hard to pronounce correctly the consonants /k/ or /g/ followed by /i/. I think that this happens especially if these sounds are in the same syllabe.
Is it ...
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